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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Had a few friends help me replace both front wheel hubs. Still got some high speed shake but I'm going to take it to get road force balanced this week. If that doesn't fix it I might swap out the tires and put Michelin on the car as the Eagle LS's are known to cause shaking. Still need to resurface rotors but might just go ahead and buy new ones and be done with it.

Had a few friends help me replace both front wheel hubs. Still got some high speed shake but I'm going to take it to get road force balanced this week. If that doesn't fix it I might swap out the tires and put Michelin on the car as the Eagle LS's are known to cause shaking. Still need to resurface rotors but might just go ahead and buy new ones and be done with it.

Re: What did you do to your car today?

Wow thanks! New OE rotors and pads are $97.10 with coupon! RockAuto was $20 more. I'll have to get those ordered this week; car still has a little over half of pad left but I'd rather go ahead and knock this out now than wait for later.

Wow thanks! New OE rotors and pads are $97.10 with coupon! RockAuto was $20 more. I'll have to get those ordered this week; car still has a little over half of pad left but I'd rather go ahead and knock this out now than wait for later.

Re: What did you do to your car today?

Drove to 3 different parts stores to find a hose and 2 clamps. 3 strikes!

This is what I handed them. (Note: Bonus irony points for being on a desk pad stating, "Brake problems?")

2 of the three came back with a piece of fuel line.

The 3rd ask me if it was fuel line, I said no 400 PSI is not fuel line and that it was power steering. He didn't have any. I asked for a center pull hose clamp. Had to explain what one was to him.(None of the three knew what one was, and none sold them)

He half laughed and said. "A hose clamp to hold a P steering line, I don't think so." I told him it has held for 37 years and 95,000 miles, it can't be too inferior a set-up!

So I cleaned up my old parts and re-installed them. The other hose was bad, this one looked OK and was made in 1996 so I hope it will do for now.

Re: What did you do to your car today?

Originally Posted by talismandave

Drove to 3 different parts stores to find a hose and 2 clamps. 3 strikes!

You probably already went there, but did you try NAPA? They had a lug nut and battery for a '49 Buick Super Convertible my father said he was having a hard time finding last week. Probably nowhere near as hard to find as what you need.